(La Porte County, IN) - Charges have been filed in connection with the fatal stabbing of a Westville prison inmate.

 

 

Another inmate, Games Birkhead, is accused in the killing that happened about five months ago.  He’s charged with two felony counts, including reckless homicide.  Authorities said the men described as friends happened to get into a conflict with each other.  At one point, the victim, Edrick Young, went into Birkhead’s cell holding a sock containing a hard object, authorities said.  Young was then stabbed in the chest with a makeshift knife from a nail.  An autopsy revealed the  nail punctured his heart.

 

According to court documents, the victim was serving time for a drunk driving related death in the Indianapolis area while Birkhead was incarcerated for violating the terms of his home detention in Elkhart County.  

 

Birkhead could face anywhere from a one to six year sentence for the killing along with an additional two to twelve years for having a deadly weapon in the prison.